Need to save my Setosa!!!

[schroedel]

Sat. I had got some new frags for my tank. One of them i wanted to glue onto the same rock as my Satosa. I had taken the rock out of the water and (dont yell at me) but it had some slim algae on it so i srayed it off with fresh water not hitting the Satosa as I recall it it did very little. I proceeded to attach the other coral a Green Psammocora and let the glue set-up and returned to the tank. I have noticed the Satosa is now getting bleached and more pale. Polyps do still come out even it the white areas towards the tips. I had just the actinics on for awile then thought maybe too much light for a sick coral so kept actinics on only and have polyps but this morn seems a little bit whiter on the tips and more pale on the body. will this pull through? shoud I have the halides on or just the actinic.
temp=78-80
salinity=1.026
ca=420-430
Mg=1260-1290
PO4=.1
nitrate=0

Ph=7.7-7.8 (tested at 11am when light are normally of and actinics have be on for an hour) close to 8.1-8.3 when light are on for awile.

alk= about 3.0 dkh?(my test results are 1.8-1.9 meq/L.
This result on my test"Red sea" wich reads meq/L says normal but going by Farleys chart it is way low.The setosa has been fine and doing well for almost 2 months before this and alk was the same.

Did I kill it?

 

[dvanacker]

Its not dead yet but you sure pi$$ed it off. Nothing you can do now is wait to see if it pulls through. If it was in good health before and your tank is healthy all around I think it will pull through.

 

[Mikey122687]

Sat. I had got some new frags for my tank. One of them i wanted to glue onto the same rock as my Satosa. I had taken the rock out of the water and (dont yell at me) but it had some slim algae on it so i srayed it off with fresh water not hitting the Satosa as I recall it it did very little. I proceeded to attach the other coral a Green Psammocora and let the glue set-up and returned to the tank. I have noticed the Satosa is now getting bleached and more pale. Polyps do still come out even it the white areas towards the tips. I had just the actinics on for awile then thought maybe too much light for a sick coral so kept actinics on only and have polyps but this morn seems a little bit whiter on the tips and more pale on the body. will this pull through? shoud I have the halides on or just the actinic.
temp=78-80
salinity=1.026
ca=420-430
Mg=1260-1290
PO4=.1
nitrate=0

Ph=7.7-7.8 (tested at 11am when light are normally of and actinics have be on for an hour) close to 8.1-8.3 when light are on for awile.

alk= about 3.0 dkh?(my test results are 1.8-1.9 meq/L.
This result on my test"Red sea" wich reads meq/L says normal but going by Farleys chart it is way low.The setosa has been fine and doing well for almost 2 months before this and alk was the same.

Did I kill it?

If your alk is 3 dkh, and its true. Then your tank is not doing so good. You want it to be around 7-8dkh for good parameters

 

[schroedel]

If your alk is 3 dkh, and its true. Then your tank is not doing so good. You want it to be around 7-8dkh for good parameters

I am trying to raise it now with seachem reef builder.
thank you.

 

[phishsauce]

You should just do a water change, adding more chemicals would only affect other corals that are not affected. When in doubt, a water change will be the best solution of miscalculation.

 

[clowndude]

I would get another reading on your alk, maybe have a local fish store read it for you. If it is actually 3, do water changes like recommended as that should bring it up for you. How are your other sps looking?

 

[rmalone]

I wouldn't really trust dkh of 3 for one reading. That is VERY low, so low I would test back against a few other kits, just to be sure. A false test reading can screw you faster than not testing at all.

 

[gig]

fixing it quickly is going to lead to bad things (except lowering nitrates), I would try and raise it by doing water changes.

 

[clowndude]

Agree and get someone else to read your alk to be sure. 3 is super low and I'm not sure I'd trust that reading.

 

[schroedel]

I did a water change yesterday and now wondering at what stage do I try to frag. my setosa to save it. I am not sure if it is more stress to frag it or to let it try to use its energy to heal the areas that are white but still have faint signs of pink poyps.

 

[MrSandman]

Its bleached and still very much recoverable. I wouldn't start fragging unless i could visibly see tissue coming off. It doesn't look like tissue is coming off so i would leave it and get your parameters back in check. I've done this more times than i want to say and things definitely recover from it. Might take a few weeks but its better than fragging.